The financial industry has spent decades convincing you that investing is so complicated you need to hand your money to someone with a fancy algorithm and a sharp suit. I spent time on that side of the table, and I am here to tell you it is a con.
The big wirehouses and their slick TV commercials want you dreaming about vineyards in Napa. I want you to wake up and look at your actual account balance. Those are very different conversations.
If you have less than a million dollars saved, the biggest wealth management firms in America have officially decided you are not worth a single human hour of attention. And they are not even hiding it anymore.
The higher education industry has been running one of the longest-lasting financial cons in American history, and parents keep lining up to hand their kids the bill. I’m done being polite about it.
They tell you cutting foreign aid kills people. They never show you the math. I will show you what your money has actually been buying.
The moment Tulsi Gabbard released her findings on COVID origins, the machine kicked into gear and suddenly she was in a Hindu cult. Convenient. This is textbook narrative burial, and the real story, that your tax dollars funded gain-of-function research with our supposed greatest enemy, is getting buried right along with it.
December 2025If you get ripped off as an investor — if you get scammed, misled, or trapped by a financial con artist — here’s the hard truth: you are left to the sharks. No cavalry is coming. No regulator is riding in at the last second to save you. That realization hit me again this […]
December 2025Absolutely disgusting. That’s the only way to describe what I’m watching unfold right now.I won’t even attempt to cover the full wave of pardons being issued — that alone would take pages. But I want to focus on one that crosses a line so clearly that it should disturb anyone with a conscience, regardless […]
Rather than do what I usually do during my Fraud Files columns, where as I grab a stack of stories from around the country and report on various instances of malfeasance. Instead, I decided that this time I am going to do more of what one might call a think piece. Every day, I print […]
Edward Jones, the brokerage that likes to market itself as your “hometown, folksy, everyone knows your name” firm is joining the ranks of the other big brokerage firms in segregating their smaller “less worthy” clients and sending them off to some sort of call-center hell. Edward D. Jones & Co is acknowledging that some of […]